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Fillmore and Luke Shanders?" "When the trial come off," answered the old man, raising his head again. "Course we couldn't lose the land. 'Twarn't worth much till the new railroad come through; then the oak come handy for cross-ties. That's what set Fillmore and Luke Shanders onto it.
"The bear, with wide-open mouth, kept on a-jumpin' an' ev'ry time she jumped I clumb a little higher, I was so busy lookin' down at her that I never looked up to see how fur I was gettin' toward the top, so, all of a suddent-like, the tree top begun to bend over with me an' sumpin' snapped. 'Twarn't my galluses, neither!" crowed Long Jerry, very much delighted by his own tale.
"Tell me what it was tell me what it was. Nobody shall know; you need not be afraid; nobody shall know." For I saw a cloud of hesitation in Margaret's face. " 'Twarn't nothin', Miss Daisy only about Darry." "What about Darry?" I said, trembling. "He done went and had a praise-meetin'," said Theresa; "and he knowed it war agin the rules; he knowed that. 'Course he did. Rules mus' be kep'."
"'Tain't to be wondered at the girl is loved," continued Willie. "At first people took an interest in her, or tried to, from a sense of duty, for you couldn't help bein' sorry for the little thing. But 'twarn't long before folks found out 'twarn't no hardship to be fond of Delight Hathaway. She was livin' sunshine, that's what she was!
De niggers stood lak a passel of sheep fer a minit 'twarn't as long as dat den someun yell 'Witches! An' dey charge fer de doh, an' when de doh git choked up dey charge fer de winder, an' when de winder git choked up but I ain' got de heart to recall dat turr'ble night!" "Did it really happen, Colonel?" Brent cried. "Every word of it, sir," the old gentleman chuckled.
'Twarn't very likely dat he would, but dar was dat one leetle chance, an' he done took it. 'I is dead, says he. 'You's a long time makin' up your min' 'bout it, says de bar. 'How long you been dead? 'Sence day 'fore yestidday, says the 'possum. 'All right! says de bar, 'when dey've on'y been dead two or free days, an' kin talk, I eats 'em all de same. An' he eat him up."
He was irritated to observe how Purdee had usurped public attention, and yet he himself listened with keenest interest. "Waal," said the ponderous blacksmith, "I kin onderstan' mighty well ez Moses would hev been mighty mad ter see them folks a-worshippin' o' a calf senseless critters they be! 'Twarn't no use flingin' down them rocks, though, an' gittin' 'em bruk.
His wife would far rather have given her the front chamber, which was large, airy and light, but Uncle Tim Aldergrass said "No," squealing out through his little peaked nose that "'twarn't an atom likely he'd ever more'n half git his pay, anyway, and he warn't a goin' to give up the hull house."
It gave pasturage in summer, and shelter from the winds of the winter. It was the assertive feature of his life; he could hardly have imagined existence without "the mounting." "Tole what he read on them rocks yes, sir, ez glib ez swallerin' a persimmon. 'Twarn't the reg'lar ten comman'ments some cur'ous new texts jes a-rollin' 'em out ez sanctified ez ef he hed been called ter preach the gospel!
"I did not see either of those craft with sails," I said to Tom Jecks, as we stood watching the following boat, which was evidently making every possible effort to come up with us. "No, sir, 'twarn't neither o' them. I see 'em put off from a bit higher up," said Jecks. "My hye! they are in a hurry, sir. You'd better tell Mr Brooke he must shake out a reef instead o' taking one up."
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